Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Kearney, Neb. - The Nebraska-Kearney softball team rallied from a 7-2 deficit to beat Chadron State, 9-8, in the second game of a double header Wednesday afternoon in Chadron.
 
The Eagles (3-0) won the first game, 3-0, thanks to a complete game five-hitter by Breeze Phillips.
 
In the night cap, UNK fell behind by five runs as Chadron took advantage of an error to score five unearned runs in its half of the fourth. The Lopers (4-8) started the come back with a single run in the fifth and then tacked on four in the sixth and two in the seventh.
 
The big sixth inning featured six straight singles and a walk as UNK scored all of its runs with two outs. Chadron (7-8) tallied another unearned run in the bottom of the inning before the Lopers reeled off four more singles in the top of the seventh to take the lead for good.
 
Freshman first baseman Katie Ruwe (4 for 4) tied the game with an RBI hit and then another former Blair Bear, junior third baseman Sarah Rome (2 for 5), followed with the game winner.
 
Chadron had the tying run at second in the bottom of the inning but Omaha freshman Jen Ulrich got a strikeout to end the game. To win for the first time in college, she allowed no earned runs and fanned three in 3.2 innings of relief work.
 
Phillips, a freshman right hander from Colorado, struck out six and walked one in the early game. Allowing just one extra base hit, she won for the first time as an Eagle.
 
Ulrich tossed 1.1 scoreless innings in relief with sophomore shortstop Mallory Noakes (Lincoln SW) and junior third baseman Brittnie Kreiser (Council Bluffs, Ia.) each going 2 for 3 to pace the offense.
 
The Lopers play four games this weekend at the Border Battle tournament at Missouri Southern State